GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 38, 13 August 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(BNITEI JRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPiIUGIIT.) (AUSTRALIA!! - NRW ZEALAND CAELB ASSOCIATION.) Mr. Israel Cohen, representative of the Zionist Mission, which is raising funds "for the settlement.of Jews in Palestine, 'is touring Australia, and will leave -for New Zealand on 20th August. He has already raised over £30,000 in Australia. *..-,■■. ' The Government of New South Wales has appointed a committee, including newspaper managers with practical knowledge, to test a bulk parcel of Australian timbers for the' suitability for paper-making. ' A messagr from Berlin states that the leader of the Persian Democrats raided the German Consulate, and carried off a quantity of arms, and arrested.the Cousul.'Herr Schuetz. The Government has ordereckthe Charge d'Affaires at Teheran to protest. In consequence of the incident, the students of the Berlin universities urge the withdrawal of Persian students from the universities. The Broken Hill strike. tribunal lias again adjourned, having failed to reach an agreement. A petition signed by' 32,437 perso'i-.s has been presented to.the Commonwealth House of Representatives protesting against the increase in members' salaries The Royal Cape Breton Yacht Squadron intends to challenge for the America | Cup as. soon as financial arrangements are completed. s An express train bound from Woutiv baggi to Melbourne collided with a motor-car containing four men, at a level crossing near Kooweerup. Two of the occupants of the car were killed, and the others were injured. The engine of the train and two carriages ;yere derailed. ' Senator,.Jones addressed at Tacorna a meeting of shipping men, who protested against the Jones Shipping Act. He said the law would not be modified in any way unless its actual operation resulted in positive and tangible injury to American trade. It is understood that the United States Navy Department has made contracts for 90 per cent, of the oil needed by the Pacific Fleet. In the Housr of Commons, Mr. Lloyd ■George moved a motion,in favour of the erectidh, a^ the House's expense, of a ' monument within the precincts of Westminster Palace to the memory of the late ) Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, witli an in- 1 scription.' expressing the House's high sense of his eminent services to the country, arai the .Empire.' The Prime Minister paid a glowing tribute to Mi. Chamberlain's great sen-ices. The resolution was unanimously carried. The New Zealand footballers have sailed from Sydney by the Ulimaroa,. The censure debate in the New South Wales Parliament is proceeding. A mail for the Prince of Wales ex-. pected by the Carkunda. will be taken, by aeroplane from Adelaide, to catch' the Renown at Sydney dii 19th August. The Prince is now concluding his country holiday, and will return to Sydney on Saturday. The annual vapor 1 of the Australian Jockey Club discloses that the prize money amounted to '£100,000, aw tho totalisator receipts to over a million. Tho club's profits were £35,000. On arrival from New Zealand, the Northumberland was quarantined at Melbourne, owing to eight persons suffering from influenza. It is expected that a Federal Parjiamentary party, comprising four Ministerialists, four Labour, anil two country members, will leave Melbourne on 2Bth August to visit the Pacific Islands.